SAD! 4-YEAR-OLD TEXAS BOY SHOOTS HIMSELF TO DEATH WITH GUN FOUND IN MOTHER'S PURSE

Just few days after a 3-year-old shot himself after finding his mother’s gun in her purse, a 4-year-old boy living just a few miles away in the same county in Texas has equally died in the same manner. Codrick Beal, 4, was being cared for by the family’s babysitter at her home when he found her gun and shot himself. His mother, Ashley Beal, had left the boy with the babysitter to go out and celebrate her birthday with friends. “It’s just a terrible accident,” Leticia Beal, a cousin of Ashley Beal, said in tears. “We see it all the time on the news but you never think it’ll hit home. It’s the most horrible thing.”

After paramedics rushed the boy to the hospital, they returned to the home to get the babysitter, who was having convulsions while grieving over the shooting. Harris County police officers are now investigating the incident. No charges have been filed at this point in time. The name of the caretaker has not been released, but she is believed to be a family friend of the Beal’s.

The Beal family is devastated over the death of Codrick, who was an only child. Keith Beal, mother Ashley Beal’s uncle, had the following to say: “He was a loveable baby…Very funny, he loved to play around all the time. He just had so much life in him, he was always a happy baby.”